There's an almost 60's California pop vibe here, Panda Bear influence mixed through the Mush Records haze before being filtered into and end product. I'm not sure how Mush Records does it, but there is a genuine MR sonic aesthetic that seems to happen with each of its acts.

It's a blowout of hard-hitting beats, a heavy duty Monday morning song to get you going for the week and the get-up-and-go track of the day. Glitched out electronic music beats are fused with southern California hip hop to offer up music that doesn't get mired in just one aesthetic or genre.

This is gonna be the soundtrack for Fall ... dark, lo-fi synthwave sounds. The song “Static” is a post-punk take on industrial music -- from the likes of the Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen jet set.

Toronto minimalist post-punk band METZ signed to Seattle's Sub Pop Records earlier this year, and will release a full-length self-titled album on the label on Oct. 9. Check out the MP3 of the song 'Wet Blanket.' | MP3

How is it that the 80's have come back again? The 20 year recycling of trends might suggest the early 90's might be an apropos influence, when grunge ruled and everyone wanted to sound like the Nirvana-Soundgarden-Pearl Jam cocktail that the music industry marketing departments were serving up to the masses. And yet, we have a surge in the kind of post-new wave, post chillwave, post-80's synth pop happening all over this Summer. | MP3

Here we go with song number three from the fantastic and challenging listenability of Chelsea Light Moving. The song is called Frank O’Hara Hit, and the recurring trend with all three Chelsea Light Moving tracks so far (see Burroughs and Groovy and Linda) is returning to the very guitar roots that made Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth so exciting. | MP3

As if Frank Ocean wasn't garnering enough attention as of late for the release of his critically lauded new album Channel Orange and his stunning performance on Jimmy Fallon last week, The Afghan Whigs have released their own robust version of his "Lovecrimes." | MP3

Thurston Moore and Samara Lubelski's new music project Chelsea Light Moving have a new song called “Groovy & Linda” out today off of their upcoming (taking shape now) album release. The song portrays the idealism of late 60s NYC East Village hippie idealism and Groovy and Linda as a sort of Bonnie and Clyde of the scene. | MP3

The new song from Ty Segall Band with "I Bought My Eyes," off of the forthcoming album Slaughterhouse. The lo-fi garage punk onslaught is enough to reaffirm your musical soul for at least the rest of the day. | MP3

Check out the first new track from A Place To Bury Strangers' upcoming album Worship with the song "You Are the One. It features their patented "jet engine textures" aesthetic and was produced by the band. | STREAM

"Bright Night" is the first full-on song released from the album, and it's an almost new school jazzy take on electronic music. It has plenty of blips and stop-and-start action, but with a layer of something more energetic and sophisticated on top of it. | STREAM

"Passage" is the first single from the debut album by a duo who call themselves Exitmusic. Singer Aleska Palladino (HBO's Boardwalk Empire) and her guitar playing hubby Devon Church have crafted a dramatic five-minute mini epic with this song. | MP3

The band Black Marble releases their EP Weight Against the Door on 12" vinyl this week, and the two songs "On My Head" and "Pretender" show their dark and gritty take on synthwave, reminiscent of Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and even early industrial music. Happy dark Monday! | MP3

The song is a nice blend of indie pop with an almost 80's new wave feel to the John Taylor-ish bass lines and pop synths. This strikes a balance between more indie rock-ish distorted guitar sounds. White Rabbits: come for the 80's stylings, stay for the modern indie rock sounds. | MP3

Cursive will release their new album I Am Gemini this month, and today we get to hear a track from the album with “Wowowow.” The album was written by Cursive frontman Tim Kasher completely in order ... he wrote them in the order they appear on the album. | MP3

There's a new Bowerbirds MP3 out today, part of their upcoming release The Clearing which is out on Mar. 6 via Dead Oceans. The indie folk is band is set to tour in March and April, mostly in large American cities. What you can expect from Bowerbirds is a melting pot of indie rock musical textures and folk styling. | MP3

The Beets sound reincarnates some of the best lo-fi acoustic sounds from Lou Barlow's bedroom recording experiments set against a kind of 60's pop leanings. It's hard not to like this song -- it's short, fast/uptempo and earnest-sounding. | MP3

Parts and Labor will go on an indefinite hiatus just as they're celebrating their tenth anniversary. They've planned a series of shows and released a final song to go out in a blaze of glory, with the aptly titled "No Nostalgia."